The ML, after returning from a trip comes to a misunderstanding about the ancestral heirloom that the MC picks up on accident, after rejecting the confession of the 2nd ML, and later makes the MC serve him and this female performer that she already had insecurities about. Later on, the MC is framed by the princess to make her look like she was cheating on the ML with some business associate of hers. Without trusting or even listening to her, he pushes her aside and gets excessively drunk, later on becoming intimate and getting caught in bed with the MC's bit*h half sister.

1. She transmigrates and gets r*ped, cooks for herself and her rapist, he steals her portions and then r*pes her again cause she talked back to him.

The story afterwards is a mix of meh cooking descriptions and bad historical anachronisms that have nothing to do with actual Chinese history. The tone switches between campy p*rno to foodie adventure to gritty r*pe drama, often within the span of a single chapter. Zero flow and consistency.

The ML is a misogynistic criminal that hates to show his sensitive side. He only realises he liked her after she "dies" by falling off a cliff. Lmao, after you treat her like s#it, r*ped her, she cooks for you and you s#it on her cooking as well, now you like her? Of course, you would be sad, you just lost a competent s*ave after all, cause that's all he thought of her.

Well after that arc, the FL separates from the rest of the cast and goes on to travel on her own, using her cooking skills as a way to get by. We see nothing of the ML until way later in the story, and tbh, this part of the novel is much more enjoyable than the first one.

It's about a girl transmigrated into an ancient Chinese period however somehow married to a bandit. The title due to her one of her merit is cooking in order to capture the stomach of her husband and survive in ancient China by cooking in various places.

there's a part where the MC adopts a pair of rabbit and she insist treating them like her kids and calling the ML the father rabbit and talking to them like children it was just so cringe. As someone who had pet rabbits it's just... why. Rabbits are NOT stuffed toys so I get miffed when authors write them like such.

the ML was undercover as a bandit and they purposely gave her the girl to test him. So if he hadn't done the did, it could have ended his carefully planned trap.

an undercover guy and he though she was a spy soo...

Then the ML forced himself onto her because he thought that she was a spy sent by the gang leader and wanted to make sure that he dish what they expected of him. Afterall, she was his wife (ancient people mentality going on please take it with a pinch of salt). Later on, the MC a was so hungry she offered to "serve" him to help her empty stomach and so the relationship was built on food. He said no but his actions proved otherwise.

So, their relationship developed this way in the mountain bandits stronghold where she as the third in commands wife and he was a spy from the government sent over to defeat this pest of a bandit. They fell in love but with one side devoting her all to him but the other side loving but suspecting that she was the gang leader's eyes and ears.

Later on, when the government attacked the bandit's stronghold, the MC found out that not only was the ML the spy, he was also a noble. And when she was about to approach him during the fight, she heard him say to his subordinate not to call her sister in law (or something that is related to her title) and that was when she 'knew' that she was just a plaything blablabla and so when she was held a hostage and all and all and managed to escape, she decided to leave and not find him. Of course the ML was remorseful because he thought she be dead.

The MC knew that she was setup to be kidnapped by the group of bandits by her stepmother and stepsister so she wanted revenge. She found out that her ex-fiancé and her stepsister who was married (as she took on her place and replace her as the eldest miss in their family to be married) was going to the capital and so she headed there dressed as a male (this literary continues on until she got married).

Along the way, she dish out her awesome cooking skills and helped a young noble (a member of royalty which is the son of the current emperor's sister aka the 2nd ML) to survive as they headed to the capital together. They had tons of fun but she found out that this noble knew the ML so she dumped him (when the ML wanted to bring the noble back) and sneaked into the capital herself without telling the noble to avoid him picking her up when she arrive (she didn't wanna see the ML/ let him know that she's alive.

She found a job at a restaurant as the head chef and later on got found out by the noble and eventually the ML and blablabla drama here and there which includes a very favoured Princess she offended and in turn the Empress Dowager, a prince who wants the throne and some family drama in her husbands family. There was a lot of misunderstandings between the ML and MC but it eventually resulted into a 'forced marriage'. There will be a fight for the throne thing that really wasn't necessary and didn't add much to the plot tbh but hey it's part of the plot sooooo. Somewhere along the line she wins the favour of numerous people and becomes rich with her restaurant etc That's about it for the entire story.